Recto: a talisman to make all who see you love you "as a Muslim loves paradise, as a faithful person loves prayer, as a stomach loves food, as fields love the rain, as infidels and wolves love meat". Verso: number table
A famous versified treatise on Arabic grammar by Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Mālik al-Ṭāʾī al-Jiyānī , known as ibn Mālik (c. 1204-1274 AD), traditionally used in the education of students in the Arabic language. In fine Sahrawi script, with extensive notation in the same hand. No biographical de...
Instructions on how many times to recite a given passage from the Qur'an depending on whether your need is great, average, small or "as insignificant as food and drink". ff 324v-325r contain instructions on how to fill in a number square drawn on an allo board in order to have your need fulfilled...
A poem on the practices of the Tijānī Sufi brotherhood in fine Sudani script. Elaborate colophon on f. 211r reports that the work was copied "at the house of ʿAbd Allāh, nicknamed Jibrīl, in the country of Ghāya" and gives praises to the Prophet who "put an end to unlawful innovations". Then foll...
A book outlining the five different types of jūr (Hausa: goro, kola nut) and the benefits of eating it. Each type has a different colour and different benefits including strengthening the mental faculties, sweetening the breath, etc.
"The Star of Shining Pearls", a life of the Prophet Muḥammad in poetic metre by Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-ʿIrāqī al-Miṣrī (1325–1403), a well-known hadith scholar. Finely written in Sahrawi script. Extensive commentary in Arabic. Some commentary in a lighter ink has all but faded.
A poem by the Sufi poet named variously Ḥishām al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn ʿAlī or Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh al-Waʿīẓī al-ʿArūḍī or al-Waʿīẓī al-Ḥasānī, but commonly known as al-Waʿīẓī. Copied in beautiful Sudani script, possibly in the Hausa style, with copious notation by the same hand. The colophon ...